A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The beautiful brain.
- Indispensable midwives?
- Scooby Doo in the museum.
- A history of children’s menus.
- How to make an abortion joke.
- A hairy history of eyebrow trends.
- Shakespeare’s close call with tyranny.
- My secret summer with Stalin’s daughter.
- The history of searching for a “quiet place.”
- How Mary Magdalene became a sex worker.
- 10 iconic movies starring the Antiquities Act.
- The women almost written out of jazz history.
- Infanticide and insanity in 19th-century Victoria.
- Africatown and the 21st-century stain of slavery.
- Street style for the sensitive German Renaissance man.
- Teaching gender in the classroom is a national security issue.
- How African Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby.
- Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman fooled 18th-century London.
- Black Mamas Matter Alliance is launching Black Maternal Health Week.